{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"","city":"GRISWOLD","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-15"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-08-18","maker":"DJI","maker_country":"CN","maker_raw":"DJI","maker_segment":"Agricultural drones","mfr_mdl_code":"06102D3","mode_s_code":"50554556","mode_s_hex":"A2D96E","model":"AGRAS T40","n_number":"N283DC","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":8,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N283DC is a DJI AGRAS T40, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Griswold, Iowa. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending, pending cancellation\". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending, pending cancellation\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 64TBK7H00100V5 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N283DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0283, cancelled November 30, 2010). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N283DC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":0,"serial_number":"64TBK7H00100V5","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Registration pending, pending cancellation","status_code":"19","status_short":"Pending cancellation","street":"55435 LEWIS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01438504","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N283DC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"515356023"}